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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The state tax department said Friday it had temporarily stopped issuing personal income tax refunds while it investigates recent cases of refund fraud.

The move came as TurboTax, the country’s most popular do-it-yourself tax preparation software, said it had temporarily stopped processing state tax returns because of an increase in fraudulent filings.

TurboTax’s parent company, Intuit Inc., based in Mountain View, California, said state agencies had reported a rise in filings with stolen personal information. It later said it resumed the filing of state returns with increased anti-fraud measures on Friday evening, a day after it had halted the process.

Vermont Tax Commissioner Mary Peterson said the tax department stopped 822 fraudulent refunds last year and already has stopped 121 in the first few weeks of this year.